Re: [ontolog-forum] Is Philosophy Useful in Software Engineering Ontolog

[Thomas Johnston <tmj44p@xxxxxxx>]

Yet if we don't all "see the same world", then we're locked in our solipsistic private universes.

Epistemological relativity is one horn of the dilemma. Ontological realism is the other.

You have not yet passed between this Cylla and Caribdis by embracing one or the other.

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/30/15 9:21 PM, Chris Partridge wrote:

Not sure this is going to get us far, but I still cannot make much sense of "But the point is that none of it is about objective reality or objective truth.  It is about the world as seen by the people and software that have to communicate." Don't we see/sense the same world?

No we don't. That's Ed's fundamental point. The very same point made by John Sowa, Patrick Hayes and others --  in a variety of posts over the years.

We are individuals for a reason :)

Think of this as the cognition paradox .

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